Bringing Relationships into Voice Hearing

This book presents a novel, theoretically informed practical approach to voice hearing, which aims to help readers improve relational harmony, reduce distress related to voice hearing and improve experiences of supportive approaches.

Rob Allison, PhD, is an academic and mental health nurse. He has many years of experience working with and learning from people distressed by voices. He developed a tripartite relationship-grounded theory to help understand and support voice hearing experiences. Ruth Lafferty, MSc, is an academic and hears voices. She uses her lived experience, creative practice, and psychotherapy training to inform her teaching work with voice hearers and practitioners.

Bringing Voice Hearing Into Relationships: Introducing a Tripartite Approach Part 1: Preface 1. Introduction: an Overview of Voice Hearing 2. The Bigger Picture: Mental Healthcare 'treatment' of Voice Hearing Part 2: Tripartite Relationship Theory 3. Hearing the 'personal Bully': Voice Hearing Experiences 4. Experiences of Supporting People Distressed by Voice Hearing 5. We're in It Together: Understanding Voices Hearing Through a Tripartite Voice Hearer - Voice - Practitioner Relationship Part 3: Putting the Tripartite Relationship Theory Into Practice 6. Phases of Voice Hearing and Voice Profiling 7. Mapping: Life and Voices 8. Communicating With Voices: Talking With Voices and Mark-making 9. Nurturing Helpful Relationships 10. Concluding Comments